Samuel Johnson Quotes
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
Johnson, Samuel. The Rambler. No. 68, J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752.
Caesar's wife, Pompeia was rumored to have had an affair. Caesar started divorce proceedings, but in the trial he admitted that he had no evidence whatsoever of her alleged infidelities. He was then asked why he wanted to divorce her:
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
